Gilded Age
Across
- 3. The novel The Octopus, about the railroad, was written by this man
- 7. Owner of U.S. Steel
- 8. he came up with the term “Gilded Age” for the late 1800s
- 10. Owner of Standard Oil
- 11. Publisher of the newspaper The New York World
- 13. His novel How the Other Half Lives documented the lives of New Yorkers living in extreme poverty
- 14. Called the “novel of _ _ _ _ _ _ _,” these described the lives, customs, mindset, and problems of the wealthiest people in society
Down
- 1. Wrote the novel The Age of Innocence
- 2. A group of authors who tried to shock readers to expose corruption, unsafe working conditions, and dangerous practices in big business
- 4. It means “new rich” in French – “nouveau”
- 5. Author of The Jungle
- 6. Newspaper writing that was known to be sensational and shocking—“_ _ _ _ _ _” journalism
- 9. Publisher of the newspaper The New York Journal
- 12. She wrote The History of Standard Oil